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I read a Supreme Court case about a sawed off shotgun, and based upon that case law, you would think the AR-15 and the .50 sniper rifle would be the weapons in the protected class (i.e., the ones necessary for a well maintained militia), and that there wo
uld be no way to ban them.

The whole point of the 2nd. But the gummit has to legislate..and the only thing left after decades of laws not working...mainly because the law is not enforced...is legislating the Constitution. Voting on the individual right wouldn't do a darn bit of good. Couple years down the road..let's vote again. Eventually it would go the other way..if it didn't right now. Can you actually believe that a vote on anythig would be worthwhile. Hell Bud, Look at the State of Maryland. A guy got voted in on a platform of no more taxes...and he had one of the biggest tax increases ever at one time in the state of Maryland. People vote so stupidly!! And you would trust that??

Also..read the 2nd the way it was written...A well aimed and trained(regulated) militia being necessary to the security of a free nation... The right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Well aimed was to regulate your arms. The guns and their sights, loads powder etc had to be regulated to make a militia effective in protecting this country and our rights. There was a big problem with the early legislators not wanting a large standing army.. We had gotten lucky and defeated the strongest army of the world at the time. The people had a strong fear of a large standing army.